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Gerard Couzens

Madeleine McCann: Portuguese prosecutors give themselves nearly 8 years to build up case against Christian Brueckner

Vanished: Madeleine McCann

Portuguese prosecutors have given themselves nearly eight more years to build up a case against Christian Brueckner by making him an official suspect over Madeleine McCann’s disappearance, it emerged on Tuesday.

Statute of limitations legislation in Portugal could have prevented him from being charged over her abduction in the country where she vanished after Tuesday’s painful 15th anniversary for the British youngster’s parents Kate and Gerry.

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